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Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

To render atheistic or godless. [R.] They endeavored to atheize one another. Berkeley.

or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. I. Taylor.

One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another. Cowell.

To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

e, as a magnet. [Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.